On Tue, 2022-08-30 at 03:56 -0400, Matt Arnold wrote:
Guidance for returning contributors
We unfortunately don't have a general guide on this topic, but it might
be worth writing one if you are keeping notes on the process.
My question is how would i now contribute this back?
Every team is different, but indeed GitHub/GitLab style workflows have
taken over many teams. Once you have a salsa account, you can either
use the web based workflows, or use the `salsa` command from devscripts
to do the same thing from the command-line. You will need to register a
auth token for the `salsa` command first though. There are also other tools/libraries for accessing GitLab APIs in Debian, but the primary
one is not yet available in Debian.
https://about.gitlab.com/partners/technology-partners/#cli-clients
PS: the one for GitHub is available in Debian as `gh` and it is great.
The situation is I recently had to prepare a new upstream version of
a package in Debian for a client minetest to 5.6.0.
...
For example would it be considered rude to just send a cleaned up version to games team mailing list with git-send-email. Or party like
it's 2009 and file a bug report with a debdiff.
There has been some discussion of minetest 5.6.0 on the IRC channel
recently, and also another returning DD interested in it on the list.
Also a non-DD got minetest updated via a non-games-team RFS in April.
https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/CAJxTCxxYMpLmOM+LHhTOSnbnPp6ir87G2pPdaCAf2HoxQutaHw@mail.gmail.com
https://bugs.debian.org/1006832 https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/Yhglc0bFzC1B6LPB@strider
So I think I would start by sending a mail to the games list
and clicking the join button on the team salsa page.
Also I might be getting ahead of myself here, but what are the best practices regarding PGP/GPG. I currently have a DD-signed 2048 bit RSA
key. Do I need to upgrade if i get back into this seriously. The only
DDs i know are in Ireland, DC, NZ, and NYC and getting any of those
places in person is cost prohibitive atm.
I think this key strength is still accepted, although a larger key or
an ECC key might be better in the long run, and OpenPGPv5 is coming:
https://debconf22.debconf.org/talks/71-sequoia-pgp-v5-openpgp-authentication-and-debian/
There are Debian folks offering key signing in many other places:
https://wiki.debian.org/Keysigning/Offers
Attending the annual Debian conference (or other events) is also a good
way to get signatures. The next DebConf is in India in September 2023
and there is usually travel/etc funding available to contributors.
In addition, key endorsements are now an alternative to key signing:
https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/[email protected]
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bye,
pabs
https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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